Lay Down Sally V2 · Eric Clapton

184 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-184 -- 99.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 190 BPM
LAY DOWN SALLY V2 · BAR 17
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 2 sections: 177 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-184.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lay Down Sally V2?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lay Down Sally V2 hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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